Martina Zelenakova

Flood risk assessment and management in Slovak Republic.

Recent history has shown that extreme hydrological events as flood and droughts can create additional stress on water supplies essential for human and ecosystem health. Floods have caused immense economic and social losses, mainly as a result of unplanned urbanization, uncontrolled population density and not strictly inspected construction by authorities. The purpose of Directive 2007/60/EC is to establish a framework for the assessment and management of flood risks, aiming at the reduction of the adverse consequences for human health, the environment, cultural heritage and economic activity associated with floods in the Community. The main aim of this paper is to present way of flood risk assessment and management in conditions of Slovak republic.

Update, Conclusions, and Recommendations for Water Resources in Slovakia: Assessment and Development

This chapter presents an update regarding the water quality assessment and development in Slovakia. Also, the main conclusions and recommendations of the chapters presented in this volume are summarized. Therefore, this chapter presents a summary of the most important findings presented by the contributors of the volume. Topics which are covered include water resources in Slovakia, their assessment and development, water supply and demand, irrigation water, groundwater, water and sediment quality with emphasizing to mining water, wastewater management in Slovakia, and rainwater management. Also, a set of recommendations for future research work is pointed out to direct the future research toward the development of water resources which is one of the strategic themes of the Slovak Republic.

Update, Conclusions and Recommendations for Water Resources in Slovakia: Climate Change, Drought and Floods

This chapter highlights the update of the topic, main conclusions and recommendations of the chapters presented in the book. Therefore, this chapter contains information on water resources in Slovakia in the period of climate change. It focuses on hydrological extremes and Slovakia – droughts and floods – risk assessment and protection; it is devoted to sustain their management. Also, it covers the main issues of the indoor environment – water management in the buildings (construction) level. Also, a set of recommendations for future research is pointed out to direct the future research towards sustainability of water resource management which is one of the strategic themes of the Slovak Republic.

Environmental impact assessment of heating power plant in Trebišov, Slovakia

Environmental impact assessment is well known and often used process in all developed countries. This process identifies, estimates, assesses and provides information on negative and positive effects of the proposed project on the environment and health, and specifies in detail the measures to mitigate the possible negative effects before approving the project and its implementation. The assessment is done for at least two alternatives of the proposed activity in comparison with a zero alternative if no activity is done (present state is kept). In this paper proposal of heating system for Trebisov town in Slovakia is presented and the best alternative is chosen comparing environmental impacts of three alternatives. Evaluation was done using the method of the total indicator of environmental quality. Construction of biomass-fired power plant seems to be the best solution of heating for selected locality.

Long-term precipitation trends in eastern Slovakia.

The objective of this study was to investigate precipitation trends in climatic stations in eastern Slovakia. We investigated 20 climatic stations in Slovakia. The studied period was from 1981 to 2010. Monthly precipitation trends were detected by nonparametric MannKendall statistical test. Positive trends of annual as well as monthly precipitation were found in the analyzed rainfall gauging stations in eastern Slovakia. March was observed to have the highest decreasing trends. All other months displayed mostly increasing trends. In quartile research mostly the summer period shows positive trends in precipitation. In conclusion, Slovakia has an increasing trend of precipitation time series.